"This piece of an infrastructure plan focused on electric transmission is just going to be critical."
"Our efforts here in Congress must focus on solutions to help them, not only in the near term, but also the long term."
"This is how we solve the climate crisis, by unleashing American innovation and building the cars of tomorrow in America."
"We have to do it. As the economy heals and interest rates remain low, this is the perfect time to invest in our workforce, electric vehicles."
"together with the Biden administration, as we bounce back from COVID, we are pressing ahead on jobs in clean energy"
"I wanted to give a shout-out to our colleague, Peter Welch, who has spent a good bit of his time in Congress fighting for this."
"It is really anti-American, isn't it, that we would prohibit anyone from negotiating something in America?"
"This just doesn't make sense any more, that there is a prohibition on Medicare negotiating prices."
"Now that the--with President Biden's election, there is a new emphasis, thankfully, as many of my colleagues have mentioned, on environmental justice."
"The Environmental Protection Agency is central to the ability of our neighbors to lead healthy lives."
"It is great to see you putting more--proposing more resources for a clean water revolving loan."